Adequate technology lacking in schools as online tests loom

Nearly 250K students remain without computers for exams

3:16 AM,
Jan. 24, 2014

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With impending new state tests planned for the next school year, some Ohio districts are concerned their students - and their classrooms - won't be ready for the technology-centered exams.

Lori Snyder-Lowe, superintendent of Morgan Local Schools, last week wrote a letter to Gov. John Kasich expressing concerns that the introduction of online exams would increase the divide between wealthy and rural schools.

"Are we setting our students up for failure?" she asked in the letter. ...